Wednesday, December 12, 2012

December 1st I treated the kids (and the husband) to a "Welcome December" Family Night. I think we'll keep this tradition on December 1st in the years to come! I made up a batch of these pretzel/hershey's/m&m treats.

This was before they went in the oven to melt down a bit, then they got topped with an m&m.

We made popcorn too, along with having some store bought Christmas cookies while watching the movie Elf together.

And, I treated everyone to hot chocolate...not the microwave kind...they home-made-real-cocoa-and-milk on the stovetop kind! You can see it was a big hit!

Monday, December 3, 2012

Dork? Maybe. But today when I went into JoAnn's for the first time in several months, and discovered they had several aisles of teacher stuff? Mega excitement.

If I were Snoopy, I'd have done the Snoopy Happy Dance.

Did you already know they sell teacher supplies now? Maybe I just don't get out enough. It isn't a fully stocked teacher store by any means, but they had a good selection of:

bulletin board borders

award certificates (Snoopy, Suzi's Zoo, Cat in the Hat)

bookmarks

incentive charts

stickers

pre cut letters (limited variety)

The prices were not fantastic, but JoAnn's frequently prints coupons so if you could use a 40% off coupon, it would make a big difference.

Believe it or not, I resisted all the teacher goodies and instead grabbed up some other supplies for making busy bags and DIY Montessori activities for my youngest son. Stay tuned!

P.S. ^^See that new blog header up there? Pretty proud of that thing...I did it using a photo I took while in New York (the bright, fun, beach chairs) and picmonkey! I know it isn't polite to brag....and I'm like the last blogger ever to figure out how to make a big header....but still. I'm proud. :)